skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
82% of Norwegians are homeowners. Garage orphans will hold back some other countries.
I’m not sure how bad a deal that would have been for the legacy companies - I’d guess most of their patents are worthless (maybe good for defense).

The legacy car companies are held back by the dealer model and failing to execute for ten years giving tesla a massive head start.

I’m not sure they’ll be able to survive the transition. Refusing to support superchargers just makes whatever EVs they do come up with a non-starter. The Electrify America network sucks.
Australia has had recorded zero locally acquired cases for more than 7 days now. At one point, Melbourne recorded 700 cases in a day, after several months of hard lockdown, it's down to 1 case in 30 days.

There's also no indication that the suicide rate in 2020 changed significantly from previous years (https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/co...)
Spam filters can be opt-in. Spam filters can be federated. Spam filters can be local. It simply isn't true that decentralized censorship resistant systems fundamentally require users to be inundated with spam.
That is excellent, did you feel like you were inside some real-life meeting performance art? Did you brew the coffee?
What is it running on top of (Ethereum, its own blockchain)? Is it similar to MakerDAO?
it's also a plain environmental issue given how populated Chinese cities are. For the air quality alone electric transport is worth it, the damage done by bad air is immeasurable already.
Based "on what he thinks the country is ready to hear" to use his own words.
Nobody is doing that. In the locales where truly autonomous vehicles are being tested, it’s happening under specific legislation and regulations put in place by the states. For Tesla, behind all their bluster, the terms and conditions you accept to use their “self-driving” features make it clear that the human driver is always responsible for safe operation of the car, and all of these features are just to assist the human driver.
An interactive evolution lab in one screenshot of Clojure
On our companies tiny MS email+office account we never had issues getting support by a person.

Being as google less as possible nowadays is just common sense.
"What are some decent alternatives to Backblaze?"

If only there were a cloud storage provider that gave you an empty UNIX filesystem to do anything you want with, using any tool that worked over stock-standard SSH.

If only ...
Thanks to baseless, politically motivated FUD, there are a lot of people who don't want to get vaccinated, but that number is nowhere near 50%.
I've always thought that TSMC's dominance in fab processes are a strategic asset in the defense of Taiwan against potential PRC encroachment. I would assume that as long as a large part of the global tech industry relies on TSMC, countries such as the USA would have a strong incentive to potentially protect Taiwan against threats. Does anyone have insight into the geopolitical impacts of Taiwan - USA relations in regards to TSMC fabs on US soil? Would Taiwan view this a strengthening of relations between the two, as I would assume this provides the USA with some "domestic" 5nm fab capacity, or is there some risk in that once this fab comes online the USA may see Taiwan as less critical?
Anyone know some good sources discussing the above?
I'm always surprised more American cities don't pander to host high-end factories. I don't know what just chips would do for the city, but I imagine hosting something like a Samsung phone factory in exchange for a massive local discount on the product would be a pretty nice perk for the citizens.
Free chargers are scattered around in a lot of places.

We have three Teslas out of six parking spots in our apartment building with no charging on site and we do fine.

I rarely use superchargers because the free options are so good, and free. And most of my supercharger visits are around 5-10 minutes which is not bad.

To be fair this is in a big city with a lot of resources.

I’d be the first to agree that not every place is like this, but it’s worth doing a careful check of your area because there are sometimes better options than you think.
I'm in the delicate position where 6 yearsago I started using Telegram and told a friend and now he doesn't want to move because I "should have told him to use signal and I have moved all my friends to Telegram and they wouldn't understand and Signal desktop has memory leaks and I don't like it anyway".

The guy nagging people with Linux ten years ago.

Anyway.
Does The Guardian have a paywall in some countries? All I ever see is a pop-up and some banners asking to donate. Sometimes those banners and pop-ups explain why they don't have a paywall.
You weren't naive. Objective-C is so much better suited to do GUI applications than Java. Plus you could dip into the performance of C where it mattered most. Also while Objective-C (when used idiomatically) was slower than Java, it was consistently and reproducibly slow around reference counting while Java itself decided when and where it was time to do a full garbage collection cycle.

And of course only now languages like Rust and Swift are feasible given the fact they do so much compile time checking. But that makes your IDE a lot slower compared to Objective-C.
My answer to that would garner yet more downvotes, which I am not interested in receiving. I already get auto-downvoted by several accounts on every comment I make.

I assume you know the answer to the question you asked, and were just being argumentative, because the answer is quite obvious. But in case you really wanted to know, instead of answering directly, I'll point you to a few resources:

1) "For authoritarian-minded leaders, the coronavirus crisis is offering a convenient pretext to silence critics and consolidate power. Censorship in China and elsewhere has fed the pandemic, helping to turn a potentially containable threat into a global calamity. The health crisis will inevitably subside, but autocratic governments’ dangerous expansion of power may be one of the pandemic’s most enduring legacies." - https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/03/how-authoritarians-are-e...

2) "The outbreak of Covid-19 and subsequent pandemic has led to an alarming uptick in authoritarian behavior by governments across the globe, who are using the crisis to silence critics, an open letter signed by more than 500 former world leaders and Nobel Laureates claims." - https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/europe/coronavirus-authoritar...

3) "...as the crisis goes on, some leaders could order restrictive measures that make public health sense at the peak of the crisis and then extend them in the hope of quashing dissent once the disease declines....A harbinger of what is to come may have appeared in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban asked parliament on 21 March to indefinitely extend a state of emergency that prescribes five-year prison sentences for those disseminating false information or obstructing the state’s crisis response." - https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/sb4-covid-19-and-conflict...
> Initially we are developing on the Ethereum Network but ultimately we expect two-way bridges to enable complete interoperability of the Reserve token across all major smart contract platforms.
What's the point of kicking someone when they're down?

Like does this give you a sense of superiority?
Not sure why they wouldn't use XMPP for this?

Also, there's another app being worked on called Stamp is a similar messaging system as well, but uses an HTTP based transport instead of SMTP.

The things that set Stamp apart is that is has:

* Spam mitigation in the base layer so relay operators don't need to deal with it
* An indirect address lookup system so you don't get tied to one Stamp provider.
* No attachment to PII to start accounts. (No phone number or email required)

Check out the whitepaper, it's not very long:

https://www.getstamp.io/whitepaper.pdf
Computers exceeded human brains in a number of measures already back when they where a bunch of mechanical gears.
The annual Google bit my hand thread.

I just cannot recommend anyone seriously use GSuite or GCP until Google starts treating customers better.
If getting the actual disease only results in 90 days of immunity, then will a vaccine do any better? Is there precident for immunity via vaccine being longer-lasting than immunity as a result of contracting the actual disease?
sounds good but i paid less than USD 1200 for the panels, inverter, cabling, installation.

Our monthly power consumption is around 300Kwh in summers (no need for air conditioning) and double in winter months (need heavy heating but no electricity due to low supply/heavy snow). that gets to around USD 200-250 for a year. that gives me 22000/250=88 years of no electricity bills to repay this system. Note, my Kwh is USD 0.05

the country is india where due to USD exchange rate which is INR 73:1 USD.
The Semi charger will probably be in the megawatt range on account of the larger battery. What will it take to power a truck stop with 100 chargers? Nuclear reactor maybe?
What I wonder is would countries like China be able to reach FSD faster since they would possibly be less ethically bound? And similarly with other tech which otherwise would be limited ethically?
"Each day, 2 million gallons of industrial wastewater are piped from Intel plants in Chandler, Arizona, to a facility a mile away where it’s treated, then returned to an underground aquifer. Intel, the city’s largest employer, recycles about 60 percent of its water" So, 40% is not recycled, which seems high? given that "the leftover effluent[s] or concentrated dissolved salts that result from making chips" are claimed to be filtered with reverse osmosis before being returned to the aquifer. It is also disappointing that it seems to be more cost effective to have the RO instead of an evaporation + optional vapor collection setup to get 100% recycled or at least to collect the salt waste given the hot dry ambient desert location would seem like the most cost effective place to do so.
> How do you reconcile that belief with the fact that Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write endurance?

That sounds more like the kind of situation where the software department said "we need to have a system that has X amount of storage" and the hardware department made the hardware for it, but there was some missing communication about endurance. It's likely not the same people writing the autopilot software.

That being said, I'm not a Tesla customer, and the way autopilot is deployed and marketed makes me very uneasy.
I do think you're right that it was a play on that phrase, but there was no "El" in the name. From their website: "La Costena & Burrito Real" [1]
Empire is one of the oldest computer games that are still being played today.

College careers have been derailed. At least one marriage, too. It gets intense.

More on Empire's history:
http://www.wolfpackempire.com/history.html
Out of curiosity, did you make use Google Cloud Platform?

I don't think I'm the only business owner who is wary of using GCP for anything, as it vastly increases the surface area of unintentional or malicious actions that could make our Google Workspace and all our data in it go poof with no recourse.
How else would you describe Waymo's message?

Trying to "educate" or talk down to a competitor with words like "this is not how this works" when Tesla has significant resources, expertise (actual cars on the road!) and knowledge in this area seems defensive to me.
Make searching zsh history easy and humanized. Haven't to remember long commands
Your post is thoughtful and well-written. I upvoted your post even though I disagree. I dislike the HN tradition of "dislike = downvote." We need more posts like yours, not less.

And this common force is to do only what the
individual forces have a natural and lawful
right to do: to protect persons, liberties,
and properties;

Progressives/liberals/etc wouldn't disagree much with this premise, but we'd differ mightily on what this premise means in practical terms.

- The FDA is far from perfect, but it generally does a good job of protecting my person from snake oil medicine and adulterated foods.

- A federal healthcare mandate/provider protects my person against dying of curable diseases because if I have no job/insurance at the moment

- Taxpayer-funded education gives me the liberty to become literate and obtain a basic level of education so that I may become employable and so forth even if my parents are unwilling or unable to educate me

And so on. There are a lot of ways for your person, properties, and liberties to be threatened, most of which are indirect.

It has converted plunder into a right, in order to
protect plunder

Sounds like unfettered capitalism to me. I would strongly argue history tells us this is precisely what happens when government has too little influence and corporations therefore become centers of power.

We would agree, at least, that equally bad things happen when governments have too much power. We would disagree on what "too much" means, obviously.
> Permanent WFH means you’ll never see your coworkers in person.

Why not? Making millions you could literally move to each of your coworkers’ city for a week, every week, and become besties. Or, fly all of them and their families to a retreat in Bali every quarter.
AI, Security, P2P and Software innovation workshops
You mean like they had to call the bug planet in Starship Troopers “Planet P” because all the other names in the universe had been taken?
Somehow this is controversial. First gmail fatalities were 16 years ago...
Except the problem is that you can't really back up Google documents. The file format is closed. You can, of course, periodically export them into common document formats. But you can't restore the same Google document and expect it back with all its functionality.

For the rest, you're completely right. Everything possible should've been backed up. It just has nagged me that a real backup isn't possible, and it has bitten me in the past (corrupted drawing, which corrupted related documents as well). Since then, I have only used the Google sheets/documents/etc. for throwaways and drafts.
Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments
Dito. I watched and counted how many are moving to Telegram and Signal and Signal is winning so far. Those aren't HN people.

But I take the bet they are moving to Telegram in a month or two when Signal's shortcomings hit them (mainly chat history and some sync issues).
I’ve seen that episode of Black Mirror (or it at least sounds like one)

Every technological advance is usually both good and bad. Some are more good, some are more bad. Sometimes we gain a lot by it, and only lose a little, other times what we gain is not worth what we lost.

The problem with this idea is what makes life valuable the machine would not know. “Life’s best practices” is subjective, and therefore the machine could promote what one considers a best practice that another considers a worst practice.
> The gap between paying a driver and using cutting edge tech is super thin at best.

The analogy is that the electric bulb did not replace candle as such but created entirely new possibilities that were unimaginable when the bulb was invented. This is nearly true for any invention and not just self driving cars. Advancements in self driving will change not just how people go to office or dates but will also change how goods are hauled, how docks are loaded, how agricultural products are transported, how fruits are picked from trees and how law enforcement deals with patrolling and so on.
If there were a Googler here willing to help you you haven't given them much to go on. Your profile has no contact information, you haven't shared a support case number, you haven't even shared your company's name or domain.
At least with office 365 you have a cached version of your email.

Google drive is hard as the only way is to setup continuous Google takeout's or use a third party service for backups which the last time I looked several years ago.
This is so unfortunate to you. Can you tell us what business you are in? Any chance that you compete with a Google service? Or some business that Google may think is not worthy like say gambling? That of course can never justify such an action. Perhaps having a lawyer reach out to them may work.
For the last 14 years, the US military intelligence community has done precisely that: from Microsoft specifically.
2/3rds power rebate on your desalination ain’t bad!
Telsa will be very transparent when the first round of lawsuits begins and they're facing multi-billion dollar lawsuits.

Toyota lost billions from simply not following accepted safety design practices. Does anyone really think Tesla's self-driving tech is ISO26262 or MISRA compliant?
Don’t forget the collateral damage of vulnerable people that cannot take the vaccine for whatever reason. Australia just passed for ages 16 and up, no idea if people under that age with other conditions are SOL or if they’re allowed to bypass that restriction. Fortunately, the population here are generally pro-fax, I assume to the point where herd immunity is actually viable.
Thanks for sharing. I actually hadnt heard of "federated machine learning" before- need to read up on that.
You can contact support by signing in as the domain admin to admin.google.com and clicking on the question mark in the upper right.

Do you have sales people? Enable any "mail merge" or "customer contact" apps lately?

Google rarely shuts down Gsuite domains without a good reason. If they really aren't telling you the reason - it is abuse related.

(Former Googler, opinions are my own, etc etc)
No, Macs have a lot of custom components, and the ones with Touch Bar or T2 added even more. Those have Apple developed Windows drivers.
It's an interesting question. I'm a native English speaker (American). I began learning French in school at age 11, and did so for 7 years, before taking a few years off, then minoring in it in college. Even now, another 15 years on, with little practice, I consider myself fluent; I haven't forgotten much and it's fairly easy to hold a conversation. That said, television and radio have always felt slightly out of my grasp; movies less so. It's the speed, and the context, and the slang.

Learning a language is so much easier when you're younger.

I also took a year of German in college, and know just enough to ask questions, the answers to which I will not understand.

I've used Duolingo to learn bits of languages before I travel. I would put this more in the "personal enrichment" category. A couple months of brief daily Norwegian lessons before a trip to Norway. It's interesting to be able to piece together bits of information from signs, advertisements, menus, etc. Certainly not something I could call useful, particularly in such an English-speaking country.

I've always heard Japanese is much harder for an American to learn than, say, French or Spanish. Given how little time American schools spend on languages, and how many years it takes to be truly "good" at even an "easy" foreign language, why bother at all? Especially as an adult, where the learning curve is so much steeper than it is for a child.

At the end of the day, I think it has to be about enjoying the process, enjoying learning, enjoying what you get out of even synthesizing small bits of information when you travel or encounter foreign media. Otherwise, with today's technology, there's simply no way that the average English- or Mandarin- speaking adult learning a foreign language (other than Mandarin or English!) makes a whole lot of sense, unless that person is planning to live in another country.
> Users fled from WhatsApp to other services with the intent of keeping their conversations more private.

That's not strictly true. Users fled whatsapp to keep their messages away from Facebook. It could be a concern for privacy or a concern for not letting Facebook (specifically) monetize their conversations.
It is not for them, but some other idiots who operate their entire company without any backups. Surprisingly common.
A powerwall has what, 12ish KW usable (less in reality) which a single one can power a house for for up to a day if you're careful about what you're using. If you scale that up to the 75KW+ batteries being put into EVs today buying an inverter could be a good investment if you live in an area with frequent power outages (or a cabin or whatnot).

There was also some talk about Teslas being able to send power back to the house with the new HPWC - not sure if that ever happened.
The people who don't get the vaccine aren't just hurting themselves. We need herd immunity for people who can't take it, or for whom it won't benefit.

There are definitely people who may not benefit as much from the vaccine because they are immuno-compromised for example.

The only reason not to take it is if your doctor tells you not to. Unless they've told us not to for medical reasons, we should take it if we can get it, ASAP.

And I think pressuring people to take it is appropriate, given that it's not just them at risk.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/who-can-and-cant-safe...
Nevermind the people who you infect and kill, you can’t be blamed for that, right?
Plus some bells and whistles that you can’t! It’s really impressive, and I’ve found Racket’s documentation to be excellent.
We have thought about this as well. If there is an emergency that affects a metro area, you need to be able to get out of the area and then refill. In an ICE, it's easy to drive 200 miles and then tank up in 5 mins. In an EV, you might be able to get 200 miles, but it's much less likely that you'll be able to refill in under an hour. If many people are evacuating, charging stations will be overloaded. Trickle charging can be done almost anywhere, but that can take a really long time.
2 years ago my post went viral here and someone from Google contacted me on LinkedIn, I’ll find him asap.

Edited: I have his Google email but I’m not sure if I can post it here. Email me instead at lawgimenez@hey.com

https://lwgmnz.me/2018/08/05/g-suite-horror-story/
Your first link says not to unless you're sick, implying that they thought they were useful for people with the virus. The second link literally says that having supplies for healthcare workers was the main impetus for saying this.

This has stood up remarkably well, a year on we know that masks are mostly effective to prevent people spreading the virus and not to prevent contracting it and we know much more about how readily it spreads asymptomatically.
After 10-ish years of using G Suite for my corp email, I finally switched last year when they started rewriting URLs in my emails to the google redirector, breaking PGP signatures and the like, even via IMAP. The only way to get my original unmodified emails is via Takeout now.

The situation is getting worse, not better. :(
Big problem here is using existing email address with other sensitive data in the inbox.

Need to tie up with an email provider and give people an email address on signup. Also needs intelligent grouping of said email with someone's gmail on both the invite/invitee side.
Why Are New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Spreading So Dramatically Around the World?
You are describing a theory of "some things are signalling", which is pretty different from "everything is signalling"
None of them have to deal with fat tail risks. (to quote nissim ntaleb).

I do not know about dbw pedals but power steering and anti-lock breaking operate 100% deterministically and the only true unknown is controlled by the driver.
"Also, I remember when there were only half as many tier 1s, so if they're a cartel keeping new members out they aren't doing a very good job of it."

As evidence for your point I would point to Hurricane Electric (he.net) who I have found to be very progressive, cost-competitive and easy to work with.

For historical reasons we[1] are connected with init7 throughout Europe but in the United States and Asia we work with he.net anywhere that we can.

[1] rsync.net has a long-standing (15+ year) relationship with init7 in Zurich.